Re: futexes: Still infinite loop in get_futex_key() in 2.6.31-rc4

Jens Rosenboom
2009-07-29T09:57:41Z

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:22 +0200, Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 15:36 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> [...]
> > Bugger.. how easy it is to reproduce?
>
> Okay, my colleague found the right combination of scripts, take the two
> attached, run them both a couple of times in parallel for some hours,
> and get a stuck ps. This happens both on an old 2.6.29.1 I happened to
> still have on one machine as with 2.6.31-rc4. Both of them dual-core
> Opterons as the original one. If you want further tracebacks or other
> information, let me know.

Forget about null.pl even, just run pees.pl twice and a top to watch it,
has worked for me within less than an hour several times now.